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Weekend plans just got a serious upgrade. There’s a New York Dutch market where Amish vendors sell everything from fruit to fresh-baked shoofly pie, and walking through it feels like stepping into a slower, sweeter way of life. This charming New York Dutch market pulls visitors in with homemade...

Humberto Lopes heard the opening bell, drew his fists and posted a profanity-laden TikTok urging landlords to stop paying their property taxes. “Let’s start not paying the property tax for this quarter coming up. We’ll fucking bankrupt this city!” he shouted in the video posted on Tuesday. “The minute we don’t pay...

Two dozen destitute families with 37 school-aged kids were evicted from a Queens homeless shelter — despite desperate pleas for Mayor Zohran Mamdani to stop the displacements. The evictions from the City View Inn in Long Island City began last weeks, shortly after the families received an abrupt notice that it’d...

A Brooklyn mom of four fell into an apartment trash compactor after leaving a bar and was crushed to death as residents heard her scream in terror, police sources said Friday. Michelle Montgomery, 39 — whose remains were initially thought to have been chopped up and stuffed inside garbage bags at a Williamsburg...

New York City has officially launched a guaranteed income pilot program to test whether cash handouts can help people achieve self-sufficiency and stability. The $1.5 million initiative is giving monthly no-strings-attached payments of $1,200 to young adults aged 18 through 24 who have struggled with homelessness. In...

Prediction market company Polymarket opened the temporary pop-up store that allows shoppers to take home groceries at no cost.

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Two emergency medical workers were forced out of an ambulance parked Thursday at a Newark hospital by a carjacker who then stole the vehicle, authorities said. Police were called about 2:40 a.m. to St. Michael’s Medical Center on Central Avenue on a report of a carjacked ambulance, according to Newark Public Safety...

The school is preparing to merge with another New Jersey public university in July.

Vegetable and Fruit Scraps Vegetable and Fruit Scraps (Image Credits: Wikimedia) In California, throwing away kitchen food scraps in the trash can could be breaking state law, and similar regulations are taking effect across multiple states. Organics like all food scraps, yard trimmings, and uncoated paper make up...